Crime Statistics for Shrub End, Colchester, Essex, March 2021

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in Shrub End using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so March 2021 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 116 street level crime incidents in Shrub End in March 2021. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shrub End, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	57
Anti Social Behaviour	29
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	7
Other Theft	6
Bicycle Theft	2
Burglary	2
Drugs	2
Shoplifting	2
Other Crime	2
All Crime	116

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2021

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Shrub End. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Shrub End

We've taken the ten nearest places to Shrub End and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Shrub End has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Colchester (1.75 miles)	433
Abbey Field (1.39 miles)	415
Berechurch (1.39 miles)	153
Beacon End (1.39 miles)	128
Chitts Hills (1.75 miles)	127
Shrub End	116
Colne (1.78 miles)	113
Maypole Green (0.88 miles)	81
Blackheath (2.24 miles)	77
Layer de la Haye (1.86 miles)	11

Most violent places near Shrub End

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Shrub End and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Colchester	148
Abbey Field	139
Berechurch	49
Shrub End	45
Colne	39
Chitts Hills	29
Beacon End	25
Blackheath	25
Maypole Green	24
Layer de la Haye	3

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